Greetings!
Here is an interesting question for this week.
Would you rather lose all your old memories or never be able to make new ones?
I think that is a really insightful question.
Just imagine you would lose all your old memories, you couldn't remember what you did for your last birthday, you couldn't remember your last vacation, or you couldn't remember anything you learned at school...or never be able to make new ones?
If you would never be able to make new ones, you would wake up every morning not remembering what you did the day before, nor could you remember if you made any new friends. This reminds me on the movie "50 first dates". It is a PG 13 movie, but really cute. It is Drew Barrymore who wakes up every morning and doesn't remember a thing that happened to her the day before. So, now your turn? Which one would you rather choose?
Here are some interesting facts and maybe a helpful tool for memorization.
How can we learn to remember better?
Since memory works by association, create an association between the information will enable us to remember better. For example, if you want to remember the following list:
hamburger-refrigerator-car-dictionary-
tiger-chair-radio-pencil
All you have to do is to visualize in your mind:
1. a hamburger shivering inside a refrigerator
2. a refrigerator is put inside a car.
3. a car crashes onto a giant dictionary.
4. a dictionary with pictures of tigers.
5. a tiger is sitting on a chair
6. a chair with a radio hanging on it.
7. turn on the radio with a pencil.
If you can form vivid associations, you will be surprised how easy it is to remember the list. The idea is to be creative and visualize in your mind the associations that connect the information together. Interesting, huh?
Let me see what you think. :)
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I think I would rather lose all of my old memories and be able to make new ones, rather than never be able to make new memories, but keep all of my old ones. I suppose I would hate to grow old and never remember doing it!
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Alannah,
ReplyDeleteNice to see you posting on here! I personally agree, never remembering a thing for the rest of your life...tough! But to put a twist on that, that would also mean that you would never remember any negative experience either and would experience everydays life pure and positive. But I guess even negative experience is a vital part of our life, otherwise we would constantly make the same mistakes over and over - but then again, we wouldn't remember making a mistake therefore it wouldn't be so bad....
I think I would also like to lose my old memories, because if you aren't able to make new ones you could wake up one day being 50 and remember only being 13. I could have kids grown up, and a husband that died yesterday! That would be horrible!!!! :(
ReplyDeleteGood point, Karolyne! But don't forget you wouldn't know it that you have kids if you'd forget by the time you wake up. I think memories are some really nice things to posses, sometimes when I relax I start thinking about old memories and it is really nice to dwell in them.
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh...I see. I would rather have........................Idk. So, I think I am going to enjoy all of my memories more now that I have thought about it! Well, gtg to bed afterwards reading some pretty good Book of Mormon!
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